Jill E. Anderson is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN.

In Domesticating Horror in the Atomic Age, Jill Anderson makes a compelling argument for how the anxieties underlying the popular myth of Cold War, June Cleaver-like domestic tranquillity troubled the media of the time. By exploring the constraints of conformity and the fears of atomic apocalypse, Anderson traces American horrors not from without, but from within domestic spaces, including family, home spaces like kitchens and lawns, and the suburbs. Melanie R. Anderson, Glenville State College

• Introduction: Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Compulsory Normativity, Banality, and HorrorChapter 1: Die, Dig, or Get Out; Or, Stop Worrying and Love the BombChapter 2: "You can Protect Your Family": Common Prudence, Survival Insurance, and Fallout SheltersChapter 3: The Madonna of the Suburbs: The Ludicrous Horrors of Everyday LifeChapter 4: "…we are already but one step removed from pod people": Compulsory Ableism and the Revenge of the Lawn in Postwar SuburbiaChapter 5: Population Bombs & Baby Boom: Overpopulation as ApocalypseConclusion: Apocalypse Now-ish: (Still) Domesticating Horror

Jill E. Anderson is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN.

In Domesticating Horror in the Atomic Age, Jill Anderson makes a compelling argument for how the anxieties underlying the popular myth of Cold War, June Cleaver-like domestic tranquillity troubled the media of the time. By exploring the constraints of conformity and the fears of atomic apocalypse, Anderson traces American horrors not from without, but from within domestic spaces, including family, home spaces like kitchens and lawns, and the suburbs. Melanie R. Anderson, Glenville State College

• Introduction: Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Compulsory Normativity, Banality, and HorrorChapter 1: Die, Dig, or Get Out; Or, Stop Worrying and Love the BombChapter 2: "You can Protect Your Family": Common Prudence, Survival Insurance, and Fallout SheltersChapter 3: The Madonna of the Suburbs: The Ludicrous Horrors of Everyday LifeChapter 4: "…we are already but one step removed from pod people": Compulsory Ableism and the Revenge of the Lawn in Postwar SuburbiaChapter 5: Population Bombs & Baby Boom: Overpopulation as ApocalypseConclusion: Apocalypse Now-ish: (Still) Domesticating Horror

Jill E. Anderson is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN.

In Domesticating Horror in the Atomic Age, Jill Anderson makes a compelling argument for how the anxieties underlying the popular myth of Cold War, June Cleaver-like domestic tranquillity troubled the media of the time. By exploring the constraints of conformity and the fears of atomic apocalypse, Anderson traces American horrors not from without, but from within domestic spaces, including family, home spaces like kitchens and lawns, and the suburbs. Melanie R. Anderson, Glenville State College

• Introduction: Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Compulsory Normativity, Banality, and HorrorChapter 1: Die, Dig, or Get Out; Or, Stop Worrying and Love the BombChapter 2: "You can Protect Your Family": Common Prudence, Survival Insurance, and Fallout SheltersChapter 3: The Madonna of the Suburbs: The Ludicrous Horrors of Everyday LifeChapter 4: "…we are already but one step removed from pod people": Compulsory Ableism and the Revenge of the Lawn in Postwar SuburbiaChapter 5: Population Bombs & Baby Boom: Overpopulation as ApocalypseConclusion: Apocalypse Now-ish: (Still) Domesticating Horror